From the course: Revit 2018: Essential Training for Architecture (Metric)

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Using keyboard shortcuts in Revit

Using keyboard shortcuts in Revit - Revit Architecture Tutorial

From the course: Revit 2018: Essential Training for Architecture (Metric)

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Using keyboard shortcuts in Revit

- [Instructor] If you work in Revit all day long, you're always going to be looking for ways to speed up operations, particularly executing commands that you use frequently. So, one way that you can do that, instead of clicking through the ribbon and hunting for the various buttons, is to use keyboard shortcuts. So keyboard shortcuts are a popular way to execute commands directly from your keyboard without having to change ribbon tabs. So let's start off by identifying which commands actually have keyboard shortcuts. The easiest way to tell whether a command has a keyboard shortcut is to just simply hover over that button on the ribbon. Now, you'll get a tooltip that displays, and what you'll notice is there is the tooltip behavior in Revit is kind of a two-step behavior. So, it first shows a simple tooltip, and then after a moment or two, it will expand out and show something more detailed. So let me hover over on the door command and show you that. Simple tooltip, and then it…

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